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Privilege, Writ, of, a process to enforce or maintain a privilege....
habeas corpus
habeas corpus [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court ;esp : habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in this entry [the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it "U.S. Constitution art. I"] habeas corpus ad fa·ci·en·dum et re·ci·pi·en·dum [-ad-fa-sē-en-dəm-et-ri-si-pē-en-dəm, -fa-shē-en-; -Ä d-fÄ -kē-en-dm-et-rā-kē-pē-en-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for doing and receiving] : habeas corpus cum causa in this entry habeas corpus ad pro·se·quen·dum [-ad-prÄ -si-kwen-dəm, -Ä d-prō-sā-kwen-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for prosecuting] : a writ for removing a prisoner for trial i...
Capias ad satisfaciendum
Capias ad satisfaciendum (that you take to satisfy); called in practice a ca. sa. A writ of execution of the highest nature, inasmuch as it deprived a person of liberty, till the satisfaction awarded be made. The writ was addressed to the sheriff, commanding him to take the body of the defendant and have him at Westminster on a day therein named, or immediately after the execution of the writ, to make the plaintiff satisfaction for his demand, or remain in custody till he did. The general rule was that any person might be arrested under this writ who was not privileged from being held to bail under a capias ad respondendum. By 7 & 8 Vict. c. 96, s. 57, this kind of execution was abolished 'in any action for the recovery of any debt wherein the sum recovered shall not exceed 20l. exclusive of the costs recovered by such judgment,' and by the (English) Debtors Act, 1869, (32 & 33 Vict c. 62), in any action whatever, unless the defendant could, but would not, pay. See IMPRISONMENT FOR DEB...
Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
Quare obstruxit
Quare obstruxit, a writ which lay for him who, having a liberty to pass through his neighbour's ground, could not enjoy his right because the owner had obstructed it, Fleta, 1. 4, c. 26.Means why he obstructed. A writ for one who could not enjoy a privilege to pass though a neighbour's land because the neighbour had obstructed the path, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1256....
Clerico convicto commisso gaol' in defectu ordinarii deliberando
Clerico convicto commisso gaol' in defectu ordinarii deliberando, an ancient writ, that lay for the delivery to his ordinary, of a clerk convicted of felony where the ordinary did not challenge him, according to the privilege of clerks, Ibid. 69....
De essendo quietum de tolonio
De essendo quietum de tolonio, a writ which lay for those who were by privilege free from the payment of toll, on their being molested therein, Fitz. N.B. 226...
Libertatibus allocandis
Libertatibus allocandis, a writ lying for a citizen or burgess, impleaded contrary to his liberty, to have his privilege allowed, Reg. Brev. 262....
Life-peerage
Life-peerage. Letters-patent, conferring the dignity of baron for life only, do not enable the grantee to sit and vote in the House of Lords, not even with the usual writ of summons to the House, Resolution of the Committee for Privileges, February 22, 1856. But see LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY....
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